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Poverty has been shown to have a significant effect on IQ - about the same amount as alcoholism according to a study a few years ago: http://www.businessinside

• mattnewton 10y ago
  Thank you, that was a nice read. I'll have to see if I can find competing research, but this theory fits really nicely with my experience.
  • spiralx 10y ago
    If you do I'd be interested as well, perhaps check for articles citing the paper? I've not heard of any more recent research myself.
  • spiralx 10y ago
    I had a look and found these two recent papers seem related... I'm about to read them myself :) Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults (2012) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491569/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491569/ On the psychology of poverty (2014) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262582311_On_the_psychology_of_poverty https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262582311_On_the_ps... Most of the research I found seemed focused on childhood poverty specifically, e.g.: Childhood poverty and recruitment of adult emotion regulatory neurocircuitry https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/10/11/1596/1644154/Childhood-poverty-and-recruitment-of-adult-emotion https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/10/11/1596/1644154/Chi... School Readiness and Self-Regulation: A Developmental Psychobiological Approach http://annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015221 http://annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-01081... How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement http://reading4all.com/entries/page/1156 http://reading4all.com/entries/page/1156